Right then … we’ve been here before, haven’t we? Spanish motorcycle company Rieju seems to have made rebadging Chinese-made bikes its primary business model. This one is called the Scrambler 607, and it is basically a Marshal Scrambler 600 with a different name. So much for the “607”.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: urban transport
What looks like a sailboard but packs a punch like a warship? Thanks to Saildrone and Lockheed Martin, it's the Saildrone Surveyor Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV), which recently fired two Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) during a naval exercise.
Category: Military, Engineering
Tags: USVs, Lockheed Martin, Sail, drones, Missile Defense
The RTE FireFold from overland accessories specialist Rough Trails Equipment is one of the slimmest, fastest packing fire pits out there. It folds more completely than other fire pits, packing slim enough to carry in a laptop bag. And whether there are strict campfire bans in place or not, the FireFold is ready to serve as the flickering centerpiece of base camp.
Tags: Fire, Camping, Overland Expo, tailgating, overland-expo-mountain-2026, Outdoors and Camping, Foldable
Today, you can buy almost anything with a few clicks on your phone. Online shopping has created millions of small deliveries, and a lot of them could be handled more efficiently if humans had a little mechanical help. That’s where delivery robots come in.
Category: Robotics, Engineering
Tags: Quadruped, Delivery robots
A new pocket knife we've spotted promises to give you the best of both worlds: a strong blade that's large enough for demanding cutting tasks, and a compact size.
Category: Knives and Multitools, Gear, Outdoors
Tags: xxKickbooster, Kickstarter, Knife, Multitools, Titanium, EDC
Hot-air drying is important in pretty much all the modern industries you can think of. It’s used to dry fruits and vegetables, preserve grains and spices, and make everything from powdered milk and instant coffee to fertilizers, fabrics, and medicines. Evaporating all that moisture with hot air takes a lot of energy. Most of that energy still comes from burning natural gas, and there are a few serious issues with that.
Category: Energy, Engineering
Tags: Steam, Fraunhofer
In another edition of “this heritage bikemaker was once European,” we have Speedy Working Motors (SWM), a name once plastered across Italian-built dirt bikes and now under the umbrella of Chinese industrial giant Shineray. SWM's story is a particularly interesting one: born in Milan in 1971, successful in the golden age of European off-road racing, dead and buried by the mid-'80s, and then dragged back into the sunlight three decades later with Chinese money behind it.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Italy, China, Touring, Affordable, Adventure Bikes
If you use Comcast's Xfinity broadband service, you might be eligible for a pretty interesting freebie: a layer of home security that doesn't require cameras or any additional hardware.
Category: Around The Home, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Home Security, Security, Radio Waves, Privacy, Motion sensor, Wi-Fi
It’s Friday night. The weekend is here. Yet once again, nobody has called to ask you out. You have no plans. It’s just you, Netflix, and a bottle of gin.
Category: Diet & Nutrition, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Alcohol, Social isolation, Mice, Brain, Addiction, Loneliness, Northwestern University
Wildfires are becoming more frequent, and one of the least serious but still frustrating consequences is that campfires are not allowed for much of the season. A San Diego-based company called Happy Caveman has designed a product that can keep you warm when traditional campfires aren’t an option. It’s currently seeking backing on Kickstarter.
Tags: Camping, Kickstarter, Heating, Fire
The Ulanzi TC001 is a small Wi-Fi clock built around a 32 x 8 RGB LED matrix. It’s compact, bright and just retro enough to be charming without looking like something dragged out of an arcade cabinet. Out of the box, the appeal is simple. The display is clear enough to read from across a room, small enough to sit unobtrusively on a desk or kitchen bench, and far more interesting than another anonymous black LCD clock.
Category: Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Clock, Alarm Clock, Smart Home
Dementia is typically considered a disease of the elderly. Older brains are more likely to fail under protein buildup or reduced blood flow.
Category: Alzheimer's & Dementia, Brain Health, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Dementia, Children, Treatment, Brain, Stem Cells
Clusters of towns and cities around the world have become curious case studies for scientists looking into just how residents there appear to defy natural aging, living healthier for much longer than anywhere else on the planet. Now, another "longevity hotspot" is in the spotlight.
Category: Aging Well, Wellness and Healthy Living, Body and Mind, Refractor: Science & Health
Tags: Aging, Age-Related, anti-aging, Health, Well-being, Happiness, Activity, Social Experiment, Diet, Nutrition
This tiny house squeezes about as much as you could reasonably ask into its 16-ft (4.9-m) length while still remaining practical for daily use. Named the Petite Pelican, the towable model uses its space-saving layout to sleep two comfortably, plus it can fit another couple of guests too.
Category: Tiny Houses, Outdoors
Tags: Building and Construction, Tiny Footprint, Micro-House, House, Home
“Better the devil you know ...” That’s a worst-case scenario outlook. The best case is an angel you know. But what if that angel was somewhat of a devil all along? Researchers have shown that ordinary Wi-Fi technology can serve as a powerful surveillance tool.
Category: Technology
Tags: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Wifi, Surveillance, Privacy, Identification
There was a time when getting a decent electric dirt bike meant spending serious money. Then the Chinese e-moto industry happened; the internet, of course, facilitated the change, and someone decided that a motorcycle capable of doing 40+ mph should cost about as much as a decent mountain bike.
Category: Motorcycles, Transport
Tags: Electric Motorcycles, Dirt Bikes, Enduro, urban transport, Off-road, Affordable
Nowadays, technology is increasingly focused on making electronics smaller, as many industries – from medicine to aerospace and security – stand to benefit. But reducing the size of devices brings a new challenge: what if they become simply too small to fit a conventional battery, motor, and other mechanical parts?
Category: Electronics, Consumer Tech, Technology
Tags: Sound, Power, drones, Micro drones, EPFL
Finding a human body buried with a sickle around their neck and a padlock around their big toe isn’t exactly common fare.
Category: Archaeology, Science, Refractor: Science & Health
The new Space Age looks to be shifting into top gear as SpaceX signs an agreement with the state of Louisiana for the company to invest US$100 billion to build the world's largest spaceport that could conduct over 10,000 launches per year.
Category: Space Systems, Engineering
For years, America's been in the chokehold of unnecessarily oversized pickup trucks, but recent announcements of new vehicles show that common sense – and more reasonably proportioned utes – may soon prevail.
Category: Automotive, Transport
Tags: Pickup, Truck, Volkswagen
